A tropical floating plant than can propagate tremendously under optimal conditions. Its leaves are light green and finely devided, they are also water-repellent. It is a very interesting plant for it is a kind of fern that lives in symbiosis with algae inside its cells. The fairy-moss is usualy not ...

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In most warmer countries of the world this plant is banned for it propagates in warm water with unbelievable speed and vigour and forms a thick carpet on the surface of lakes and slow running rivers. The carpet can become so thick that all other plant below it die because of the lack of sunlight. Sometime ...

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The leaves of the Frog`s Bit look like those of tiny waterlilies. Unlike them they are not rooted in the soil but float free on the surface of the water. From midsummer on white triparted flowers do appear. The Frog`s Bit grows best in shallow water but needs also some deeper spots where its hibernacles ...

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This is the only kind of duckweed we offer. All other species run riot and absolutely not suitable for garden ponds. This one is quite different. First of all it doesn`t float on the surface but a few centimeters below it. Second it doesn`t form dense carpets but loose little groups that allow the sunlight ...

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A rare native plant that is on the list of endangered species. It is very far related to Gentianes, but you can`t tell from its appearance. It developes small `waterlily-leaves` and wanders happily through the pond - at times too happily, better keep it under control. From midsummer on it holds its ...

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The flowers of this plant are quite modest, almost invisible. The decorative effect depends alone on the pretty light green foliage that float in loose rosettes on the surface of the water. Water-Luttuce loves water that is so shallaw that its roots can touch the ground. It isn\'t hardy and available ...

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Another name of this plant is Water-Aloe which describes its appearance perfectly. It really looks like an aloe that has fallen into the water, when it floats on the surface. It spreads by producing young plants on runners. In autumn it sinks on the ground of the pond and emerges again the next spring ...

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Once the Water-Chestnut must have been a common plant for it shells are found in large amounts in archeological excavations. In Eastern Asia it is still an important supply of food, while it almost died out in Central Europe. There is a handful of places where it still grows in Germany and ...

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Once a common plant today rare and endangered. It floats without any roots below the surface of the water or remains laying on the ground. It is also one of the few native carnivorous plants. The whole plant is covered with tiny bladders. Inside the bladders the pressure is lower than outside. If for ...

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